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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
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"If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind."

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Amy Grant Singer, Songwriter
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"But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question."

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